Verse 4

By your wisdom and understanding, you have made wealth for yourself, and you have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 8:17-18 : 17 You may say in your heart, 'My power and the strength of my hand have produced this wealth for me.' 18 But remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you the power to gain wealth, so that He may confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is today.
  • Prov 18:11 : 11 The wealth of the rich is like their fortified city; they imagine it is a wall too high to scale.
  • Prov 23:4-5 : 4 Do not wear yourself out trying to become rich; stop relying on your own understanding. 5 Will you fix your eyes on wealth only for it to vanish? For it makes itself wings and flies away like an eagle toward the heavens.
  • Eccl 9:11 : 11 Again I saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor does bread come to the wise, nor riches to the discerning, nor favor to the knowledgeable; but time and chance happen to them all.
  • Ezek 29:3 : 3 Speak and say, 'This is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster lying in the midst of his rivers, who says, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it for myself.’
  • Hab 1:16 : 16 Therefore they sacrifice to their net and burn incense to their dragnet, for by these their portion is rich and their food is plentiful.
  • Zech 9:2-4 : 2 Hamath, also, will border it; Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise. 3 Tyre has built herself a stronghold and heaped up silver like dust and gold like the dirt in the streets. 4 But the Lord will dispossess her and strike her power in the sea, and she will be consumed by fire.